§ Ms KinghamTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what action his Department has taken to ensure that policies regarding Roma, gipsies and travellers are included in action plans following the Macpherson report. [121518]
§ Mr. StrawIn March 1999, I published an Action Plan detailing the Government's response to all 70 recommendations of Sir William Macpherson's Report on52W the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry. Details of progress on these recommendations can be found in my First Annual Report on Progress on this Action Plan, published in February this year, a copy of which is in the Library. None of the recommendations of the report were specific to particular ethnic or cultural groups, and the action taken has accordingly been targeted equally at all minority ethnic communities.